In the coming week BBC Radio is broadcasting several programmes relating to Shakespeare and his work, the most prominent of which will be a new radio production of Othello in the Saturday Play slot on 27 February (TRILT Identifier: 014380F6) and starring Lenny Henry, whose preparation for the original 2009 stage production was also the subject of the documentary Lenny Henry Plays Othello (TRILT Identifier: 00DBDB6F) which is still available on BoB and BBC iPlayer. Details of the forthcoming CD release of this production will be available on the BUFVC’s Shakespeare database.

On 3 March the Radio 4 Afternoon Play will be Shakespeare’s Vortigern and Rowena (TRILT Identifier: 0144885D), a comedy by Melissa Murray set in 1796. At the Drury Lane theatre Richard Sheridan puts on a guaranteed hit: a production of a ‘lost’ Shakespeare play. What could possibly go wrong? With Alex Jennings, Lorcan Cranitch, Ben Crowe, Rufus Wright

5 March sees the return of The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show on BBC Radio 7. All of these programmes are or will be available via BoB and the BBC iPlayer. For further details, log in to TRILT.